{"id":326784,"date":"2026-07-02T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326784\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:03:09","slug":"pine-island-divided-over-jug-creek-marinas-growth-and-rezoning-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326784\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine Island divided over Jug Creek Marina’s growth and rezoning | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

PINE ISLAND, Fla. (WINK)\u2014\u00a0A packed community meeting put the future of a local marina at the center of a heated debate Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Dozens of Pine Island residents filled the Pine Island Methodist Church to share their thoughts on Jug Creek Marina & Fish House<\/a> and its plans to expand.<\/p>\n

For many, the marina represents hope for a community still healing from years of storms.<\/p>\n

“We’re surviving; we’re survivors here on Pine Island. We lost Captain Cons, we lost a couple of our other, we lost Hooked, we lost a lot of our restaurants,” said Donna Coleman, a neighbor.<\/p>\n

Business owner Chardayne Seuffert said the marina has been a bright spot for the island.<\/p>\n

“We are also recovering from the hurricane and the moral its a destination its done really really good things for the island,” Seuffert said.<\/p>\n

But not everyone sees it that way.<\/p>\n

Some neighbors say the marina’s growth has changed the quiet, old Florida community they moved to.<\/p>\n

“We bought into a quant fishing village not into a bar nightclub scene,” said Gary Graef, a neighbor.<\/p>\n

Graef also pointed to the growing number of cars lining nearby streets as a concern.<\/p>\n

“Everybody has a good time down there, it is a really nice place its just a shame we live on the street,” Graef said.<\/p>\n

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office<\/a> confirmed that deputies have enforced parking violations along Tortuga Street.<\/p>\n

Jug Creek’s management says they have heard those concerns and are already looking at ways to improve parking.<\/p>\n

“The county has had the opportunity to see our draft twice, and there’s a question and answer period that goes back and forth, so we’re making sure we’re addressing all the requirements,” said Steve King, operations manager of Jug Creek Marina.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s meeting was not a hearing to approve or deny a rezoning request. It was a required public comment meeting before the matter goes in front of Lee County Commissioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINE ISLAND, Fla. (WINK)\u2014\u00a0A packed community meeting put the future of a local marina at the center of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,135060,5382],"class_list":["post-326784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-jug-creek-marina","tag-pine-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}